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Assistant Adjutant General, Thomas M. Vincent, letter to Indian Agent of the Tulalip Reservation, Brevet Captain George D. Hill, regarding approval of Hill's request to be relieved from duty as Indian Agent, March 20, 1871

Sir:-Referring to your letter of the 24th ultimo, requesting to be relieved from duty as Indian Agent in charge of the Tulallip Indian Agency. W. T. I have respectfully to inform you that you were relieved from such duty by paragraph 3. of Special Orders No. 89. March 6th, 1871, from this office and a copy sent to you through the commissioner of Indian Affairs.

On January 22, 1855, Washington Territorial Governor Isaac I. Stevens met with the Snoqualmie, Duwamish, Lummi, Suiattle, Snohomish, Samish, Stillaguamish and other tribes of the Puget Sound region to agree on a land settlement in which the government secured hundreds of thousands of acres in exchange for money, reservations for many of the tribes and rights for whaling, sealing, fishing and gathering. In 1859, Congress ratified this treaty as the Treaty of Point Elliot. The Tulalip Reservation was formed by this treaty and the land was extended in an Executive Order in 1873. The reservation is home to the Snoqualmie, Snohomish, Samish, Stillaguamish and Suiattle tribes. In 1860, an agency was established at the reservation and a military-appointed Indian Agent executed all parts of the treaty and other orders made from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D. C. In 1936, the allied tribes formed the Tulalip Constitution which was approved by the Secretary of the Interior. They then appointed their own Board of Directors to govern themselves. George D. Hill was born in Ohio. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1861. He lost his left arm after he was wounded in battle. Following the war, Hill was stationed at Plattsburg, New York and was involved with recruiting. In 1869, Hill was sent to Washington Territory to investigate Native American tribes at Neah Bay and Tulalip. He was then appointed Indian Agent at Tulalip and retired from the army. He served at the Tulalip Reservation until 1871. He then served as acting Indian Agent at the Neah Bay Agency from 1877 to 1878. Hill was also a major Republican Party member in King County and was elected treasurer of King County from 1874 until 1887. On December 4, 1890, Hill fell off a gangplank while boarding a ship and drowned at the approximate age of 50.

Sir:-Referring to your letter of the 24th ultimo, requesting to be relieved from duty as Indian Agent in charge of the Tulallip Indian Agency. W. T. I have respectfully to inform you that you were relieved from such duty by paragraph 3. of Special Orders No. 89. March 6th, 1871, from this office and a copy sent to you through the commissioner of Indian Affairs.